"Shuangxi Myanmar garment factory forced to work excessive hours and committed labor rights violations", 14 December 2023

A Shuangxi Myanmar Garment Factory worker said that they have to work overtime on government holidays and are forced to work overtime all night every day.

The factory is located at Industrial Zone 2, Hlaing Thayar Township, Yangon Region, Makkhara Princegyi Road...and operates with more than 600 workers.

JAKO brand adult shirt, pants [are sewn at the factory]

In addition to being forced to work overtime, other violations are being committed, and the fabric [targets] are set much higher than the workers can sew...

He said that workers are suffering psychological damage due to the rude comments made in the workplace.

The worker said that there are more than 20 day laborers with more than 3 to 4 months of working experience in the workplace, and because there is no confirmed employee appointment, these workers are losing their vacation days, social security benefits...

"What is happening is that there are some supers who treat workers fairly. If they are such people, the managers and supers find the supers who have a good relationship without fault and fire them because the rest of the supers also do not have a good relationship without losing their jobs, so it is worse in the workplace. As entrepreneurs, I want to ask whether they really want to be like that," said a veteran worker in the workplace regarding the violations of labor rights...

"On the days when you have to [work] until 10:00 p.m., you are forced to stay overnight at the factory, and you have to get up in the morning, and...you have to go back on your own, and...don't get the ferry to go back to work...," the worker said.

The workers' demand is to stop the violation of labor rights...to ask [for] the workers' consent [for overtime], to arrange [transport] for the workers who have to work overtime, and to stop [supervisors] from speaking rudely and discriminating, and not committing innocent firings...

[Translation via Google Translate]